PH Embassy Reaches out to Filipinos in Hokkaido

PHOTO: As part of its mandate to provide consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo, in partnership with the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Sapporo, headed by Honorary Consul Ken Luis Tobe, conducted a two-day consular outreach mission in Sapporo City on 14 to 15 September 2019. Hokkaido is a prefecture located 1,111 kilometers from Tokyo and is home to around 1,991 Filipinos.

During the first day of the consular mission, the six-member consular outreach team processed 179 e-Passport applications and 18 notarial services. Following day, the team traveled to the town of Urakawa around 174km from Sapporo city to process the passport application of a Filipino who was involved in an accident.

The Embassy will conduct its next consular mission in Nagano from 12 to 13 October 2019 and in Okinawa from 09 to 10 November 2019. (Tokyo PE photo)

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